House in Progress Diary

VENTILATE your workspace!

Lesson learned today.

When the home improvement books and magazines CASUALLY mention ventilating an area under construction....

TAKE THEM EXTREMELY SERIOUSLY! Or you and your things will look like everything has been splattered with flour. And it will be around for months and months.

When we moved in, we inherited (ha ha!) THIS fan. This fan was so covered in grease and grime and dust that turning it on made everything around it filthier. I spent a lot of time with rags and ammonia and water and Fantastik on this fan.

And I am glad I did.

This fan has come in EXTREMELY handy. Well. Now that it isn't spewing disgusting bits (as our friends across the pond would say).

And when the room is full of plaster dust? That window just slides right up with TWO fingers (thanks John!) and we point it out right over the roof. Sorry world. Sorry squirrels. But you've been digging in our flowerpots as well as trying to break into the roof again, so....(shrugs). War is hell.

Posted by jeanne on November 15, 2003 at 9:41 PM